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Your plane crashes in the pacific somewhere and you are stranded on a remote tropical island. The island is big enough that it has a fresh water supply, but you are the only human inhabiting the island. Fortunately, you brought with you five books and you have successfully salvaged these books from the burning wreckage of your plane. These books are the key to you remaining sane during the duration of your stay on the island. What five books did you bring with you?
1. The Holy Bible
2. The Silmarillion
3. Plato's Republic
4. A History of Western Art
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Finnegans Wake
The Ego and His Own
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>1. The Holy Bible
You could have stopped here
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Don Quixote
Aurelius' Meditations
Robinson Crusoe (kind of fits the theme)
A River Runs Through It
Gibbon's Decline and Fall (some omnibus volume or something that contains at least the first three volumes)
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what is the mac demarco of literature?
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Inherent Vice
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>>7683899
Tao Lin obviously
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Slacker Rock is John von Dorf
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Can you think of a situation that is DFWean, Wallacean, or Wallacesque?
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*WalLean
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>>7683835
I posted this one bit of flash fiction here in the summer about a guy killing the CEO of the Dr. Pepper Snapple group as revenge for marginalizing Mr. Pibb with Dr. Pepper. I'd post it again but I never saved it.
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Dee-Eff-Dubwean
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Am I a bad Christian if I've read Confessions but not the actual Bible all the way through?
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Of course you are. You need to read it and learn from it. Then you can understand the essence of your religion.
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>>7694636
Just go to your church. They give you easy summaries of the best and most important parts of the Bible, so you don't actually have to read it.
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Read the Lego Bible (Brick Testament), it's pretty cool desu. It's the complete (I'm pretty sure they have every verse) Old and New Testament with accompanying Lego imagery. It's available online for free.
I am convinced that Poe is the best writer to come out of the United States. The sentiment which he implements is similar to what is seen within the Russians and the effect he produces is no less profound than what the works of Kafka are capable of. The extensive vocabulary he seems to have such a mastery over is used in a way that I have not seen and it colors his works so to read them and compare them to those of other Americans is like to look at a painting and compare it with a rough doodle. Why is it that you guys extol the likes of Faulkner and Pychon but say nothing of Poe who, I repeat, I consider to be the pinnacle of American literature?
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Poe was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
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I'm sure you've copied this from another thread you tried to cast your bait in. You've won my response, if only to say that you have obviously not read any of his short stories.
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bait
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Let's dispel this fiction once and for all that Robert Musil doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing; He knows exactly what he's doing. He was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
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it's true, you know.
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Well he didn't know what he was doing with Man w/o since it's unfinished. He didn't know how to finish it. He's not any of those things but I don't think he's particularly good. He doesn't know what he's doing, he's just stringing along random little tidbits of philosophy in an attempt at something grand but failing.
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i couldnt get past the first 100 pages. the shit was so fucking boring.
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Hey /lit/,
I have a paper due about which genre produces better fiction, science fiction or fantasy. Spare me the typical /lit/ commentary on genre fiction. I don't normally read it, so I'm having trouble.
Can anybody link me to some articles promoting or defending the merits of these genres?
It would be a great help, thanks.
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SciFi
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Fantasy, definitely
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>>7692920
fite me
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What do you guys think of this? 2016-02-12 22:02:43 Post No.7690815
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What do you guys think of this?
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I found it very eye opening.
10/10 read desu lads.
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Just a comfy read.
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Best book ive ever read to be honest family.
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the only book you'll ever need
Big news
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Is he big enough to live off his books now, or does he still have to work part time as a starbucks barrista.
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The state of literature has gotten this bad?
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>>7689990
Just this board, if you cared you would be getting this kind of news from the NYRB
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Ask me some questions about Nietzsche faggots. I've studied him for a long time, and I have to take my mind off something for a while.
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Does it bother you that high school edge lords claim they love Nietzsche and are total nihilists even though all they've read of him is his wikipedia page?
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>>7687729
Also, I've not read Nietzsche so this may be a foolish question, is the idea of the Ubermensch or Superman theoretical or does he believe it to be executable in life?
Additionally... What exactly is the Ubermensch.
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No, the attention he gets increases chances of me getting hired in a couple years.Any self-respecting history of phil department needs a nietzschean, just like it needs a kant guy, an ancient guy, a modern analytic etc.
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>The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation it becomes an image.
Been obsessed with this for 2 years now. Anyone here read it or have an opinion on situationist theory in general? Any good essays/books that critique its perspective?
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The theme of The Society of the Spectacle is that we no longer live in a society, but, rather, a ‘spectacle’ that is mediated by images (i.e., appearances—the way we look, dress, act, talk, etc. around others). In this spectacle, one must assimilate and conform to the status-quo in order to find a social sense of acceptance. In other words, nothing is genuine or real, but simply a façade. The spectacle (i.e., society) is a game of fake and phony rules and courtesies. And we all must play by these socially constructed rules lest we be expelled or expunged by the system itself.
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>>7685300
How is this different to any other society at any other stage in history? Courtesy and rituals have always ruled us.
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garbage; popular with young mensheviks and future bureaucrats in europe because it is garbage. popular with the lgbt riot pussies in muscowy because it was popular with mensheviks and bureaucrats in the west.
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Why does everybody assume that K. was innocent?
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My diary tbqh
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>What is burden of proof??
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Who assumes he was innocent? Noone in the book, surely. Not even K.
Are you suggesting the readers do? Only those who reduce Kafka's entire oeuvre to bureaucratic satire would come up with something so daft.
I think it's quite clear K. is guilty.
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What is the next BIG thing?
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We currently live in the decrepit era of the Young-Adult Females. Every book portrays a young independant white individual doing acts of violence, destroying the right idols and somehow changing the world through murder.
My question is what comes next?
These writers are not receiving their fat movie adaptations anymore. The genre has become stale as literature and exhausting as anything else. Yet their target market grows hungry yet again thanks to easily accessible eBooks.
How can we conquer these 14 years old fanfiction-reading girls with something that will actually make their lives better?
I know "pop" is low-tier literature but the reality is that there are millions of books being sold to this massive market every year.
How can we actually replace the Money Games and sell quality literature as the next big thing?
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the hyper-novel is the future. the concept of 'literarture' is the product of outdated modes of text distribution... YA and shit like buzzfeed, the meme industrial complex are actually light years ahead of any 'literary' text content creators, they have managed to adapt to a post-print system before anyone else.
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Read Soumission
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Cyberislam is the future. think technosufic singuarity and the jihadi archetype as urban mystic/gangsta/cyberpunk hacker, terrorism as avant performance art
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I watch a lot of movies /lit/. I'm looking for good books about cinema. I've read neither Bergman nor Ebert books and I mention them because I know they're popular.
Give me some recommendations /lit/. I'm looking for technical, biographical and historical books.
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Cinema was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
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>>7693370
Tarkovsky's "Sculpting in Time"
"Film as Subversive Art"
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>>7693390
Thanks anon. I love Tarkovsky and I'm definitely reading it.
>I listen to Beethoven while reading/writing
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Listening to any complex music that requires the full attention of the listener for complete appreciation whilst reading is waste. Neither you appreciate the book fully, nor you notice the subtleties, for example as in OP, Beethoven.
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How about for writing?
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>>7692573
I listen to music that I've heard a million times before this ranges from folk to Rachmaninoff. I need that beautiful white noise to separate my ears from the outside world so my eyes can focus on the page and not on the world around me.